On 2009 May 8, at 19:57, Rick O'Quinn wrote:
Richard,
One other trick that might get you closer to "what you see is what
you get" in the container field is viewing it in a web portal. If
the files are stored as a reference AND they are in a web-friendly
format like a pdf or jpeg, you could create a url to them and
display it in a web portal. Then you'd actually see the file. Don't
think it would work for a word or excel file though.
Just a thought...
And an intriguing one it is.
But it would be overkill for what I need. My client doesn't need the
documents to open automatically upon going to the record, the way the
web viewer works. What I WOULD like to provide her with is some quick
visual cue as to whether she CAN open the file by double-clicking on
it, or if she's going to have to use the "Export" button I've
provided her with. The former works for stored references, the latter
for stored files, and you can't tell just by looking at the container
field which is which. (In fact, now that I think about it, I can
probably set up that "Export" button to simply open the file
regardless of how it's stored. Hmm, thanks for sending my brain down
this pathway.)
